Christine Taylor

Platform as a service (PaaS) is a cloud-based web development platform that shifts computing infrastructure and development tools from the customer data center to the PaaS cloud provider. Some PaaS environments run on a business’s private cloud, but most PaaS offerings run from a cloud computing vendor who provides the infrastructure and the full development […]

                Cloud computing security is a critical topic because most businesses use the cloud in some shape, form, or fashion. There are lots of different ways that they use the cloud: cloud computing with SaaS, IaaS, or PaaS; in a hybrid cloud configuration; using cloud storage with content […]

Hybrid cloud storage promises to provide the enterprise with agile, elastic, and reliable virtual storage services that can also accelerate adoption of other cloud-enabled IT solutions. As companies succeed with cloud transformation projects and IT adopts more of an internal service provider orientation, they don’t just save on hybrid cloud economics but business-side IT clients […]

Disaster recovery (DR) in the cloud sounds like an attractive proposition but it can also be a confusing one. There are so many options: Which cloud providers should I use? Should I use a public cloud’s DR service or a third party who provides DR on the public cloud? Should I use DR as a […]

The pace of IT development is fast and it is relentless.  What was bleeding edge just a few short years ago becomes old hat, replaced by the next big thing.  Generally, no one can predict in detail what that next advancement may be, either.  Since no one wants to have to replace everything in their […]

Also see: Hadoop and Big Data Hadoop is an open source software framework for Big Data, managed by the Apache Software Foundation. Hadoop stores huge data sets across distributed server and storage clusters, and supports distributed analysis across the clusters. Hadoop is primarily a data warehouse for massively growing semi-structured and unstructured data – a huge […]

Apache Hadoop is an open source software framework that enables high throughput processing of big data sets across distributed clusters. Apache modules include Hadoop Common, a set of common utilities that run through the modules. These include Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS), Hadoop YARN for scheduling jobs and managing cluster resources, and Hadoop MapReduce, a […]

Depending on the source, private clouds are either going the way of the dodo or they’re growing faster than a bullet train. The reality is that true private clouds, as opposed to merely virtualized data centers, are becoming more popular. Infrastructure that IT mistakenly termed a private cloud is not, since hypervisors alone cannot provide […]

Cloud backup is very common for businesses and individuals. However, vendors are pouring resources into development of better cloud-based backup and recovery (BUR) and disaster recovery (DR) for mid-sized and the enterprise. The goal is to evolve from simple departmental or ROBO backup to high RTO and RPO service levels, application recovery and virtual data […]

The Information Governance (IG) concept has been around for years. Implementation has proven difficult to downright impossible because the domain is so broad. Enterprise-wide IG is massively scaled, crossing workgroups, location, data types, and business process boundaries. When the enterprise determines to implement IG, it faces the prospect of developing new processes and technology across […]